Rancho Bernardo Handicap
Grade III race | |
Location |
Del Mar Racetrack Del Mar, California |
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Inaugurated | 1967 |
Race type | Thoroughbred - Flat racing |
Website |
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Race information | |
Distance | 6.5 furlongs |
Surface | Polytrack |
Track | left-handed |
Qualification | Fillies & Mares, 3-years-old & up |
Weight | Assigned |
Purse | $100,000 (2015) |
The Rancho Bernardo Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. It is open to fillies and mares age three and up and raced at a distance of six and one-half furlongs on Polytrack. A Grade III event, it currently offers a purse of $100,000. As of 2008, it is a Breeders' Cup "Win And You're In" event, qualifying the winner to run in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint.
Since inception the race has been contested at various distances and surfaces:
- 1 mile: 1967 (on dirt)
- 1 1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs): 1973 (on turf)
- 6 furlongs: 1974-85 (on dirt)
- 6.5 furlongs: 1986-2006 (on dirt)
- 6.5 furlongs: 2007-present (on Polytrack)
Quicken Tree won this race in 1967.
Records
Speed record: (at current distance of 6.5 furlongs)
- 1:14.20 - Track Gal (1995) (dirt)
- 1:14.48 - Reneesgotzip (2013) (Polytrack) (Race and Track record)
Most wins:
- 3 - Track Gal (1995, 1996, 1997)
Most wins by a jockey:
- 9 - Laffit Pincay, Jr. (1976, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1991, 2000)
- 8 - Chris McCarron (1978, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998)
Most wins by a trainer:
- 6 - D. Wayne Lukas (1980, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988)
Most wins by an owner:
- 3 - Oldknow & Phipps (1995, 1996, 1997)
Past winners
- 2016 - Tara's Tango (Martin Garcia)
- 2015 - Taris (Gary Stevens)
- 2014 - Judy the Beauty (Mike E. Smith)
- 2013 - Reneesgotzip (Garrett Gomez)
- 2012 - Winding Way (Rafael Bejarano)
- 2011 - Tanda (Joe Talamo)
- 2010 - Sweet August Moon (Victor Espinoza)
- 2009 - Carlsbad (Tyler Baze)
- 2008 - Dearest Trickski (Mike E. Smith)
- 2007 - River's Prayer (Clinton Potts)
- 2006 - Behaving Badly (Victor Espinoza)
- 2005 - Behaving Badly (Victor Espinoza)
- 2004 - Dream of Summer (Mike E. Smith)
- 2003 - Secret Liaison (Corey Nakatani)
- 2002 - Kalookan Queen (Alex Solis)
- 2001 - Kalookan Queen (Alex Solis)
- 2000 - Theresa's Tizzy (Laffit Pincay, Jr.)
References
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